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25 Roubles
| Issuer | Assignation Bank of Russia (Ассигнационный банк) |
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| Year | 1785-1818 |
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| Size | 170 × 130 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | №1240221 25 Объявителю сей государственной ассигнацiи платить ассигнационный банкъ двадцать пять рублей ходячею монетою 1814 года. Двадцать пять Др. б. (Translation: The bearer of this state banknote is paid by the Assignation Bank twenty five roubles in current coin. Year 1814. Twenty five. Director of the bank.) |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents the obverse text in mirror impression as a set-off from printing, visible through the thin paper, with one handwritten manuscript signature accompanied by the abbreviated title 'Сов. пр. б.' (Советник правления банка — Councillor of the bank board) at upper left. The serial number appears inverted at top, consistent with the note's verso layout. |
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The Russian assignat series was introduced under Catherine II in 1769 as a practical solution to the weight of copper coinage — silver and gold were too scarce for everyday commerce, and copper coin was literally too heavy to move in quantity. The Assignation Bank held copper reserves notionally backing these notes, though that relationship eroded quickly as the government printed to cover military expenditures, particularly during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
The long issue span of over three decades meant notes of radically different condition circulated side by side. Forgery was a persistent problem; Napoleon reportedly authorized mass counterfeiting of the assignats during the 1812 campaign as deliberate economic warfare, flooding occupied territories with fake notes to destabilize Russian commerce.